Tres leches is basically a cake soaked in three milks, it is my all-time favorite dessert. For years I’ve tried to make the perfect tres leches and this recipe is the one!! It’s been extremely difficult to create the perfect sponge cake, obtain a balance of all the three milks, and whip up the perfect […]
Chicharrones (fried pork cracklings) remind me of summer back home, when we would have pool parties at my parent’s house and we would deep fry them in our backyard and eat them while everyone was in the pool. During Christmas, we eat the crispy cooked skin straight from the pork we make during Noche Buena (Christmas Eve), […]
Merenguitos (Meringue Kisses), are the most delicious tiny spanish treats and are perfect for the holidays! Making merenguitos takes me back to my childhood when I would spend countless hours in the kitchen with my aunt from Texas cooking. She was the one who actually taught me how to make meringue kisses. She would actually […]
For our final dish for this Thanksgiving extravaganza I present to you this sweet, savory, and crunchy sweet potato mash with a plantain chip crust, baked to perfection! I ditched the same old boring marshmallow toppings for some crushed plantain chips to make this sweet potato mash. It gives it a nice little crunch and […]
I am going to tell you about the first time that I ever tasted a corn creme brulee. It was my wife’s 28th birthday and we went to a steakhouse in New York called Quality Meats (they have one in South Florida as well) and while I was grazing the menu, my eyes landed on […]
To me, stuffing is the best part of Thanksgiving. I can honestly give up the whole meal, for the exception of dessert, of course and just eat a plate of stuffing. I kid you not. So, this year I am trying something different and switching it up and making chorizo stuffing. I promise you are […]
I love apple pies, especially around this time of year. They make you feel like you are at home for the holidays with your family. So, it didn’t feel right to not share an apple pie empanada recipe for the blog. It was my first time ever making one of these and let me tell […]
The golden recipe for this Thanksgiving is my guava apple crumble pie! I promise you, you will never have a plain old jane crumble apple pie again! I love apple pies so every Thanksgiving I make one. It’s honestly my favorite dessert for this holiday along with my Pumpkin Creme Brulee (which the recipe can […]
Put away that Kraft mac and cheese box for this year’s Thanksgiving. Yeah put it down and don’t think about grabbing it again. This year, you are going to wow your guests with possibly the best bacon mac and cheese recipe ever. You are going to treat them to a chicharron and mariquita mac and […]
I have always thought of chili as being a soup and only eaten as an appetizer but my wife thinks otherwise. According to her, chili is a whole meal. I personally can’t get down with this, because as a Cuban, a whole meal has rice in it and sometimes chili is not served with rice. […]
